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Black woman found hanging from tree was dead before body was 'staged', police say
Tasia Fortune's body was found hanging from a tree on the grounds of an abandoned home in Jackson in August.
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Police in the US state of Mississippi have said that they believe a black woman was already dead before her body was "staged" and placed hanging in a tree.
The disclosure was made in court by a detective on Friday, who also said they believed Tasia Fortune, a mother of four, had been killed in a dispute related to drugs.
The 29-year-old's body was found hanging from a tree on the grounds of an abandoned home in Jackson in August.
Fortune's mother told the BBC that she remembers the coroner telling her: "we're not treating this as [an] actual hanging."